Maximize student success

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Maximize student success
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Maximize Student Success

• Todays Purpose
• Clarify Expectations
• Explore Engagement Opportunities
• Brainstorm Possible Measures
• Discuss Accountability

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Maximize Student Success

• College Year 1 Goal
• 90 within semester persistence
• 55 fall to fall retention
• College Year 3 Goal
• 70 fall to fall retention

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Expectations
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Expectations

• Everyone has a role to play
• Every Division
• Every Department
• Every Individual

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Classroom
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Expectations

• Think about what YOU can influence
• Avoid temptation to take on the world
• Remember the old bumper sticker

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Maximize Student Success
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Student engagement
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Maximize Student Success

• Student Engagement CCSSE
• Research-based measures
• Activities that promote student success
• Communicated through five benchmarks
• www.ccsse.org

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Student Engagement

• Active Collaborative Learning
• This is a technical college where a student is
  supposed to receive textbook learning with hands
  on instructions. BUT its not always what happens
  in most classrooms. A lot of the instructors tell
  the students here is the material and the
  assignment is due on this date- Good Luck!

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Student Engagement

• Student Effort
• When employers were questioned about the
  important things they looked for in employees
  their 1 response was that they show up for work
  every day. Same thing is true for college.
  Regular attendance is one of top things for a
  successful completion of college.

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Student Engagement

• Academic Challenge
• I just graduated high school back in May and
  didn't know what to expect from college. Everyone
  told me that it was a lot different than high
  school and I see what they mean. I actually like
  it better than high school.

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Student Engagement

• Student-Faculty Interaction
• I feel like faculty need to just be vocal in
  their assignments and expectations. I feel many
  instructors are purposely vague in order to thin
  out those who dont listen quite as well.

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Student Engagement

• Support for Learners
• I do think instructors and advisors play a huge
  role in the success of the student. I think most
  of the time a new student will need reassurance.
  They may feel intimidated by advisors to discuss
  goals.

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measures
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Measures

• Performance Targets
• Think of strategic ways to reach goals
• Not reaching target is NOT a failure
• Not trying is a failure

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Measures

• Ideally a quantifiable measure of impact on
  student performance
• Engagement, persistence or learning
• Next best a quantifiable measure of activity
  that supports student performance

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Measures

• Activities/Measures will vary by area
• Instructional student engagement and
  persistence
• Student Services student engagement and support
  of engagement
• Administrative/Support Services support of
  engagement

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Measures

• Instructional Examples
• Engagement Measure
• Faculty teaching ENG 100 will meet with each
  student for a fifteen minute mid-term conference
  to discuss career plans.
• Persistence Measure
• Successful course completion rates (e.g., C or
  better) for ENG 100 will increase from an average
  60 to 64 without lowering standards.

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Measures

• Student Services Examples
• 90 of students who receive probation counseling
  will avoid suspension
• Students will report 90 satisfaction with
  Financial Aid counseling

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Measures

• Administrative/Support Service Examples
• HR will fill 95 of all vacancies within two
  months with qualified personnel.
• Students report at least 90 satisfaction with
  quality of food through Food Services Survey.
• IR will return instructor/course evaluation
  results to divisions within four weeks of the
  start of the next semester.

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accountability
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Accountability

• Method to document activities and progress toward
  goals
• NOT punitive
• Again, not meeting goals is OK
• Not trying is not

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Accountability

• Divisions/Departments
• Institutional Effectiveness
• Individuals
• EPMS/FPMS

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Accountability

• Institutional Effectiveness
• One to two measures per department/division
• www.yorktech.com/ie
• Internal reports

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Accountability

• EPMS/FPMS
• Faculty/Staff/Administrators
• Two objectives
• One Measurable
• Faculty one related to student engagement

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Accountability

• Institutional Effectiveness
• October 15th plans for 2008-09
• June 30th results for 2008-09
• EPMS/FPMS
• October 13th plans for 2008-09
• September 1st performance review for 2008-09

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What to do?
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The answers not out there
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Its right here.
http//etc.yorktech.com/MP3Vids/penguin.mp3